Author: Sydney Lupkin

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s annual financial disclosure reveals he has received two lucrative book advances and free flights from a friend while in office.

The Trump administration’s efforts to lower drug prices included promised changes to Medicaid. But it’s still unclear which drugs will be affected. And each state has to opt in.

The Bridge program, which began July 1, makes some Medicare beneficiaries eligible for obesity drugs for $50 a month. CVS and Walgreens say they’ve each already filled 100,000 such prescriptions.

Dr. Heidi Overton is currently working as a White House policy aide. If confirmed, she would lead an agency of 18,000 staffers who study and regulate food, drugs, medical devices, tobacco and more.